Table 1 Registered unemployed, by immigrant background, region of birth and sex. By the end of August 2006 and 2007. Absolute figures and in per cent of the labour force

1 Registered unemployed, by immigrant background, region of birth and sex. By the end of August 2006 and 2007. Absolute figures and in per cent of the labour force
	August 2006			August 2007

	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females

Registered unemployed, total	65 733	32 177	33 556	48 886	23 619	25 267

Non-immigrant population and descendants	51 633	24 979	26 654	37 516	17 969	19 547

First generation immigrants, total	14 100	7 198	6 902	11 370	5 650	5 720
The Nordic countries	970	496	474	766	369	397
Western Europe else	654	400	254	522	312	210
EU countries in Eastern Europe	582	162	420	519	181	338
Eastern Europe else	2 090	895	1 195	1 662	671	991
North America and Oceania	152	75	77	100	50	50
Asia¹	6 403	3 206	3 197	4 967	2 362	2 605
Africa	2 651	1 719	932	2 374	1 511	863
South and Central America	598	245	353	460	194	266

	Per cent
Registered unemployed, total	2.7	2.5	3.0	2.0	1.8	2.2

Non-immigrant population and descendants	2.3	2.1	2.6	1.7	1.5	1.8

First generation immigrants, total	7.7	7.2	8.3	5.6	5.0	6.4
The Nordic countries	3.0	3.0	2.9	2.2	2.1	2.4
Western Europe else	2.8	2.7	3.0	2.0	1.9	2.2
EU countries in Eastern Europe	3.9	2.0	6.0	2.3	1.3	4.0
Eastern Europe else	9.3	8.3	10.4	6.9	5.8	8.0
North America and Oceania	3.6	3.2	4.0	2.2	2.0	2.5
Asia¹	10.5	9.5	11.6	7.6	6.7	8.7
Africa	15.8	15.9	15.4	12.6	12.6	12.5
South and Central America	7.5	6.3	8.8	5.5	4.8	6.2

¹	Turkey is included.